Calculated Ambush

KELLAN’S POV

The moment Nolan pushed his chair back and said her name, I knew this dinner had crossed a line. I didn’t look at Nolan. I looked at my mother.

Her expression didn’t change, not surprise, not concern, not even curiosity. Just that same composed calm she wore when she was ten steps ahead of everyone else in the room.

Piper had froze beside me. I felt it through our joined hands, the wa